[Bob McNeill]

David , don,t get us wrong, the chaps who worked on building the Short knew what they wanted. The Aust Short 25pr was designed to pull apart into 14 manable loads, and as such was dropped into the Markam valley at Nabziab in support of the U. S. 105th, the First time Australian Artillery had been dropped into action, most of the gunners had never jumped before. It took 3 minutes to pull down and 4 minutes to reassemble, it did its job. Mike Cecils book on 25s list the weights of individual parts, well worth a read.